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Romanian

Romanian is taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at UCL SSEES.

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Romanian is a Neo-Latin language with an important Slavonic influence. It is the official language of Romania and Moldova. It has a fascinating grammatical system based on genders and endings for plurals, verb conjugations and cases. The vocabulary is based mainly on Latin, but often with a corresponding Slavonic pair. Romanian reflects the mode of thinking of its speakers through a rich and varied set of sayings, idioms and its popular literature. The first written document discovered in Romanian was quite late, in the 16th century and it was written in Cyrillic letters. Romanian has regional variants, influenced by the geographical position and landscape.

Castle in Transylvania, Romania

Undergraduate Degrees with Romanian

Romanian can be studied as a single Honours degree, or in combination with another language.

  • Romanian and East European Studies BA
  • Russian with an East European Language BA

Modern Languages Degrees with Romanian

This degree combines two modern languages, which can be taken from SSEES and/or SELCS (School of European Languages, Culture and Society)

  • Romanian (+ another language)

View all Modern Language combinations with Romanian:

LanguagesUCAS CodeEntry Requirement (A level)
Polish and Romanian BAR7PNABB
Hebrew and Romanian BAQ4ROABB including one of the named languages
Romanian and Yiddish BARROYABB including one of the named languages
French and Romanian BAR1ROAAB (A in French)
Romanian and Spanish BAR7ORAAB (A in Spanish)
Czech and Romanian BAR7COABB
Finnish and Romanian BAR6FRABB
Danish and Romanian BAR6DRABB including one of the named languages
Dutch and Romanian BAR9ROABB including one of the named languages
Hungarian and Romanian BAR7HRABB
Polish and Romanian BAR7PNABB
Romanian and Russian BAR7OCABB
Romanian and Serbian/Croatian BAR7SRABB
Romanian and Ukrainian BAR7OUABB
German and Romanian BAR2ROABB including one of the named languages
Italian and Romanian BAR3ROABB including one of the named languages
Norwegian and Romanian BAR6NRABB including one of the named languages
Romanian and Portuguese BAR5ROABB including one of the named languages
Romanian and Swedish BAR7OWABB including one of the named languages

UCL students on the following degrees also have the option to take Polish as a chosen language:

  • Comparative Literature BA
  • Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad BA
  • Language and Culture BA
  • European Social and Political Studies BA

View all SSEES Undergraduate Modules

 

Painted eggs Romania

Taking Romanian as an Elective Module

Both undergraduate and postgraduate students on other degree programmes at UCL can take a Romanian language module as an elective (programme diet permitting).

Undergraduate

All SSEES social science undergraduate degrees offer the opportunity take Romanian language as an elective module. Students in other UCL departments may also select Romanian as an elective (programme diet permitting):

  • SEER0003 Romanian A
  • SEER0017 Romanian B
  • SEER0018 Romanian C

UCL students on the following degrees also have the option to take Romanian as a chosen language:

  • Comparative Literature BA
  • Comparative Literature with a Year Abroad BA
  • Language and Culture BA
  • European Social and Political Studies BA
Postgraduate

Romanian can be taken as an elective module for all SSEES MA programmes, as well as for a number of other Postgraduate Taught degrees in other UCL departments.

Modules covering Romanian language include:

  • SEES0033 New Language: Romanian
  • SEES0023 Intermediate Language: Romanian

Evening Courses

  • Evening Courses at UCL SSEES

Contacts

  • SSEES Admissions Office: ugadmissions@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
  • Ramona Gönczöl (Associate Professor in Romanian)
  • Ms Evgeniia Drozdova (Admissions Tutor)
  • Dr Riitta Valijarvi (Programme Coordinator)

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